To ask neighbour to turn his music down.

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We live in a lovely town where you wouldn't expect this to happen but we seem to have moved next to the most inconsiderate man in the area.

Our neighbour built a garden bar on the boundary of our properties. This boundary used to be covered in trees, however we have removed these (no TPO) as they had a fungus and were at risk of coming down in a storm.

Since building the bar, our neighbour plays ridiculously loud music (90 decibels) until 1/2/3am where we can hear it in our home and it keeps the kids awake.

I have confronted him twice. The first ended up in him being extremely verbally abusive to me and the second in an assault which we were victims of (currently waiting for a court date).

This neighbour thinks we are awful for asking him to turn his music down and has also said we deserve the abuse from him as we have cut the trees down.

AIBU for asking him to turn this down or should I just put up with the kids being woken up and us not being able to sleep?

Lovely town 😂 is it to be expected in a complete shithole? (How do you rank a town anyway)

Keep a record and submit it to EH. If they've been violent in the past, I wouldn't confront them- they are obviously not going to be reasonable.

Best to get onto your local Council's environmental department. It can take time but it solved it in the end in my case.

Sorry you are going through this

@ImCamembertTheBigCheese did you have to go to court for it? I’ve been keeping a log all year but worried about having to go to court for that as well as the assault. Also don’t want to antagonise him as he is doing awful things such as commenting on our already agreed planning application. X

You already know you aren't being unreasonable, clearly.

Not really sure what you want people to say. There's already been an assault. Obviously the man is in the wrong, it's not really anything that requires more analysis.

I expect the OP is merely stating she likes where she lives.

Sound advice followed on though. I’ve been in a situation in the distant past when l couldn’t get to sleep, too stressed knowing l was going to be disturbed with loud music in the small hours.

Log with Environmental Health. Youve tried to approach this nob twice. Log everything. Try to record any interaction as well/go out at 3am and record the sound from over the fence. You shouldn’t have to live like this

No court. Took months but eventually the environmental guys came out at about 1:30am and next door were partying loudly, luckily about 5 minutes after they arrived, next door turned the sound up even louder than before. Council wrote the landlord a letter saying any further noise would gain a £2,000 fine. Never heard a peep after that letter and they were gone very shortly after that.

Environmental Health will need to witness the noise in your home (in person or with recording device) and then can serve either an Abatement Notice (statutory nuisance legislation) or a Community Protection Notice (ASB legislation). Send them your logs to start the process.

Report him to the council environmental health department EVERY SINGLE TIME.

You're going to be doing building work soon?

Make sure you start early in the morning every time he parties to 3am.

Yes, further antagonising a man whose already assaulted her seems like the best plan!